Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-04-19
LOGnON April II

u"u-i secretary Tor Ireland, for the first time
since his appointment answered interroga.
,iohs IN the House of Commons respecting
Irish affairs.
upon rising he was greeted with cheers by
the government supporters and groans and
oeflslve cries by the Parnelltes.
Ae stated in response to a question tba,
since March l only two tenants have been
evicted from the Marquis of Lansdow n 3
estate
Sexton asked if the government would con.
sent to rescind the suspension of Healy.
w. II. Smith, first lord of the treasury, re.
plieo Tor the government that the duty thev
had TO discharge Friday night was most dis
agreeable. The government were sorry that
they were forced TO ask that Healy be named
Ior transgressing the orders of the House.
II would be utterly out of the question, how.
ever, whom no apology had been given for
this breach of the deceHcies of debate, 10 re
send suspension. No motion that might be
made TO that effect could be entertained with
out the general concurrence of the House.
Sexton inquired if it was competent for
him 10 move the resembling of Heay's sus-
pension.
Speaker Peel relied that no motion would
De competent unless it appeared on the pa
pers of the House.
N""o", Sob'ihuihS, ohlu tildt III tIlc dUSe0Ce
OF Healy he was authorized for him to sav
that if Maj. Saunderson withdrew the often
sve charges to which Healy's was IN reply,
Healy would Withdraw the expression deemed
by the House offensive.
Sexton then moved that Healy be heard at
the bar of the House.
The speaker declared that this couldn't be
done.
Sexton thereupon asked Saunderson to
withdraw his assertions regarding Healy, and
which had exasperated him into making the
remarks for which he was suspended.
Saunderson remaining SILENT Gladstone pu
direct question to him whether he was pre-
pared to render the House any assistance by
withdrawal of his expressions.
The Conservatives cried no." 'no."
"dOn't," I'd mt"
Saunderson arose and said that he had new
er alluded to Healv directly or indirectly be-
cause he had felt as regards HeaIy that he
was unable to substantiate the charges so as
to bring conviction to the minds of the mem
The matter was then dropped.
Subsequently, Sexon, resuming debate on
the Irish crimes act amendment bill, said
that Saunderson had charged him with direct
completely in crime. If the accusation were
well founded why did the Irish viceroy ap-
prove his present appointment as high sheriff
of Dublin? The treasurer CT the old league
was at one time an intimate friend of Col.
King Harmon. Cheers. They were fellow
members of the council of the home rule
league. Not only that, but Eagan wrote for
the Colonel his political addresses to the
electors. Laughter If past association
with men charged with crime meant compile
ity in that crime, which side of the House
was deepest in assassination? 1t was mani
festly an absurdity for Saunderson to accuse
an executive of the Land League of Knowing
men who were murderers because their
names were mentioned in connection with the
Phoenix Park affair. He (Sexton) had never
learned of any fact or of anything that had
been proved which would warrant changing
the opinion he had always entertained that
Esgan and those associated with him were
innocent of the charges brought against them
Cries of hear, hear. Msj. Saunderson's
attack was both mean and cowardly. 1t did
not contain direct ard explicit charge, but
was composed of insinuatons founded on
scandalous rumors. Whatever shape they
might henceforlh take the speaker would pay
no attention to them. The only way to argue
with the sort Of people who made such attacks
was to horsewhip them or take them before
the law.
Referring to the bill under consideration,
Sexton said that the measure threatened the
existence of the Irish National League. He
would remind the House that the League was
aided by the prelates and clergy of the Cath
olic church and struggled to maintain moral
law. Yet the league so supported was stig
matized as conspiracy maintained by crIml-
mails and dynamters.
Sexton, continuing, said that 1t was absurd
to attempt to suppress body strong in the
hearts of the Irlsh and so powerfully sup
| ported in Ireland and America as the Nation
al League, which, so far from being an acces-
sorv to and an inciter of crime, labored to
put it down. If the bill was passed it would
happily hasten the ruin of the government.
! The day which saw the downfall of the gov
| erpment would witness the cessation of coer-
| cion. [Cheers.
Lord Harrington. who on rising was greet
ed with cheers, said it was strange that the
section of liberals now described BY the Par
| nellites as the great and generous liberal par
ty, were the very persons who short time
ago were denounced as pertdious, venal and
in every way contemplate. He had himself
publicly declared there was connection be-
tween the Irish party in Parliament and the
fenian association in America, and he had
expected that Mr. Parnell when Parliament
met would deny the accusation and state the
grounds OF his denial
Parnell-Gnterrup ing) II stated that it
was false. say so still" CCheers
Lord Hartington-Blank denial in the face
of opposing proof is worth .nothing. The
state ments made in the Times have been wide
| ly circulated and have never been shown to
he wrong, and the letter printed in the fore
noon Times justified every syllable uttered 10
associating the Irish party with the fenian
society. Ford. Egan, Brennan and Sullivan
were fenian leaders and the statements OF the
Times proved conclusively that constant
communications passed between Parnell and
these persons. ;.
Parneu Twill the noble lord give his
reasons for supposng these gentlemen to be
Iead.r. of fenians IN America. l don't know
them as such -. :. .,
unon the knowledge acquired when L was
last in offica. There is also tact that tue
same statements have rep aatediy been mace
in the papers without contradiction Can
psrnell deny knowing that Alexander Sulli
ran had been the leader of Clan a-Giei
Sexton has alleged that the reason why GRIM
;nol ac,ion was not raised against the papers
vas the impossibility of getting falr yer.
dict from British jury. That excuse ls NOT
ono that will have much weight with the
neo,le in the face of so grave and persistent
in,np,at;on,. 1t is not been denied that
parnaIl and Sexton have been members OF
,ha league with Egan. Brennan, Boynton and
Sr.:aer The assertion Of the Times IL